Letter from Tpr Percy Day to his mother, RMS Avondale Castle, Sunday afternoon, nd.
In this letter he describes leaving Aldershot and the voyage thus far, this letter being posted in Las Palmas in the Canary Isles.
From a collection of letters and other papers of Sgt Percy Day, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), part of the 21st Bn Imperial Yeomanry while serving in the Boer War during 1901-1902, and afterwards as a settler in Cape Colony, 1902-1904.
Associated with the Boer War (1899-1902).